There are Broncos fans scattered all over the globe and they are all figuring out how to watch next Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Seahawks.

Since I sent out my request to hear from international Broncos fans on Thursday, I’ve received more than 150 emails. There are a lot of cool stories out there. Unfortunately, I can’t share them all. I’ll continue to post this blog throughout Super Bowl week while I’m stationed in Times Square.

Here is Chapter 2:

PALAU

Alii (Greetings) Patrick! I bet you a bag of skittles I am the most unique Broncos fan out there!

My long strange, journey began when I moved from Denver in ’98 to San Francisco where ironically enough I ended up working as a production director for the Oakland Raiders’ radio broadcast (ugh).

From here I was offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start a television station in the tropical island paradise of Palau! Somehow I parlayed my background in sports-talk radio into Oceania Television’s sports news anchor and host of a yearly Superbowl special called the “Jock Block.” This year will be my sixth Superbowl special, but first cheering on my most beloved home team — my ultimate dream come true!!!!

In Palau we celebrate Superbowl Monday starting at about 8 in the morning, but my wife, Vee, along with my three boys, will have our hearts at home in Colorado with our family and friends as we watch Peyton and the boys bring home the Lombardi Trophy. GO BRONCOS!!!!

BTW-The average yearly temp. here is 80 degrees. Best place in the world to watch the SB 😉

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

I live 8,762 miles from Mile High Stadium and have conducted a long-distance love affair with the Broncos from my home in Melbourne, Australia since 1986.

I traveled to the U.S. in 1983 for a family holiday and was captivated by football, but it was not until three seasons later that I settled on a favorite team. John Elway’s right arm was the clincher for me, and I became a mad Broncos fan.

In those days I could only follow game results by ringing a USA Today hotline (at around $5.00 a minute!) every Monday morning and hearing the scores read out. Australian TV showed a delayed replay of one game per week, so I got to watch the Broncos play about twice a season!

The Superbowl was always broadcast live so I experienced the heartbreak of three Broncos losses in 4 seasons, and always felt the pain of John’s 0-3 Superbowl record.

By 1997, we had much better TV coverage of games and I was able to watch live as we went from the gut-wrenching low of the Jacksonville loss to the ecstasy of Superbowl XXXII, John’s beautiful redemption. Game time here starts 3 a.m. Monday mornings so you have to be dedicated!

I made a dream come true in 1995 by flying to Denver to watch my team play for the first time in person. I dressed like an Australian for the occasion and nearly died from hypothermia in the snow on the top deck of Mile High!

By the time we’d walked up the hill to our hotel on Zuni Street, I was so cold I couldn’t hold the room key and open the door! To make it worse, the Chiefs dominated us that day and won 21-7. But I did get to see an Elway to Sharpe TD pass and I was just thrilled to be there in the place of my dreams.

I’ve now seen my team play five times and we’ve never lost since! I’ve seen wins in old Mile High, new Mile High, Arrowhead and Sydney. I’ve spent my savings traveling to watch the Broncos play and it’s been worth every cent! My first time in the new stadium was during the 2012 season when we pummeled the Saints. To me that was the day the Broncos really broke out and became the best team in the NFL that they are right now. And the greatest part of it? That day was my kids’ first Broncos game!

Choosing to become a Broncos fan was one of my life’s great decisions; they have given me so much pleasure, pain and excitement over the last 28 seasons. From crushing Superbowl losses to the ultimate joy, from the horror of blowing the AFC West title in 2008 to Tebow’s incredible, miracle winning streak of 2011 (DT’s OT TD against Pittsburgh is one of my favourite Broncos moments, despite knowing we had no chance of a title that season), from the pain of letting a Lombardi trophy slip last January against the Ravens to the indescribable tension of knowing that trophy number 3 and Peyton’s crowning as a two-time Superbowl champion may be only days away… Being a Broncos fan has been a special, amazing privilege. The staff of the Broncos and the people of Denver have been beautiful to me when I’ve made the long, expensive journey there, and they made my kids feel like Broncos royalty last season at the stadium.

I played the game here in Melbourne for 5 seasons from 1990-94 and I will be watching the Superbowl from the home theatre of an old team-mate’s house with about 40 other guys that used to play here. We will have food, drink, decorations and even Superbowl merchandise! I’m even taking my kids out of school to hopefully watch the Broncos win it all! In my dreams I will be in New York but at least here I know I’ll be warm!
Kindest regards to the entire Broncos Nation… Go Peyton, Go Champ, GO BRONCOS!!

— Clyde Sampson

KUWAIT

Thank you for thinking of us out there, overseas. I am from Kuwait; a small country in the Middle East. I started to watch the Broncos while I was pursuing my Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Colorado at Denver (January 1998 – December 2002), which as you know just few blocks away from Mile High Stadium. My love for the Broncos started when John Elway & Co. won their first Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers just few weeks after my arrival to the US. That day is unforgettable!

Today, I am working on brainwashing my two boys (Hamed & Fahad) and girl (Farida) into loving the Broncos just like their dad and I think I am doing a good job. This morning, I told the boys “when you grow up and go to university, I will send you to California and visit you frequently”. Thinking that it will be a place that they would love — because they went to a lot of fun places there such as Disney and Universal Studios. However, instantly, determined and simultaneously, both replied “we want to go to Denver and the Broncos”.

After moving back to my home country, and with the huge time difference (10 hours) I have never missed a game, thanks to those cable TV channels and recently to the NFL Gamepass HD stream service. I can’t wait to watch the Seahawks and Broncos game and I hope this time Manning and his team can finish job.

Sincerely,

Mohammad Alshalfan
Kuwait

BEIJING

My name is Max. I’ve been living in Beijing since last November teaching English. I grew up in Winter Park and hardly ever missed a game growing up. My dad has had season tickets for 30 years and began taking me and my brother to games in baby backpacks. I live and breathe orange and blue and moving abroad was one of the toughest decisions I ever had to make simply because I didn’t want to miss Broncos games.

I made the sacrifice, though, and it was almost unbearable last year when we lost to the Ravens. This year I bit my lip watching every game from my bed at 2-3-4 in the morning — wanting so bad to be there. When we made the AFC ship, I tried like hell to come back to watch the game, but before Chinese New Year it’s nearly impossible to get travel tickets. I’m often in my bed yelling at my computer (I stream the games online since I don’t have TV here), clapping my hands, punching mattress and my girlfriend gets angry because she’s trying to sleep before she has to get up for work.

I, on the other hand, specifically accepted a job where I could get Mondays off just so I could watch the Broncos games. I actually had to take a pay cut to do so. For the AFC game I went to one of the 24 hour bars with some friends at 3 a.m. I’d absolutely love to come home for the Super Bowl and watch with my family but I just don’t think I’ll be able to make it happen.

Last year I attended the official NFL sanctioned party here at a five-star hotel in downtown Beijing. For $50 we got endless Budweiser, the game on giant screens, breakfast buffet, open bar, halftime show by four NFL cheerleaders, and Reggie Bush was even there. We got to meet him and he even was nice enough to do a shot with us — all at about 9 a.m., mind you. SO, if I can’t be with my family for the Super Bowl, this will have to suffice again this year.

Go Broncos

SAN PAULO, BRAZIL

I’m a lifelong Broncos fan who’s also a U.S. Diplomat currently posted
to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

My earliest memories of NFL football were both cruel and unusual
(Superbowls XXI, XXII, and XXIV).

Growing up in D.C. I was forced to watch countless replays of DEN vs.
WAS from 1987…secretly hoping that our defense would find a way to
contain Doug Williams and Timmy Smith in that entirely forgettable
second quarter (to no avail).

While posted to Amman, Jordan, I watched the Tim Tebow-led playoff
loss vs. New England with a Colorado native. Last year, I suffered in
silence as Jacoby Jones hauled in the “miracle” that ended our season.
A loss is tough. A loss on minimal sleep is much tougher (Jordan is nine hours ahead of Denver).

With renewed optimism, I’ve been following our record-setting offense
all year. Quietly optimistic, yet not confident enough to mention the
“SB” until it became reality last weekend. I’ll catch the big game at
O’Malley’s. It’s the one Irish Pub in a city of 11 million that
routinely shows games.

My favorite Bronco is Champ Bailey because he quietly goes about his job
with the full respect of teammates and opponents alike. Let’s hope he
goes out the way he should on Feb 2 vs. Seattle.

All our best from Brazil, Go Broncos!

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

For those of us die-hard Broncos fans Down Under, you can call Super Bowl 48 “MMF” (Monday Morning Football) as the game will come on here about 10 A.M. Monday morning.

We will be playing hooky to watch and can help you with all of your betting needs since we will be watching it from the future so will know all outcomes before they happen in N.J.!

Our greatest challenge on Super Bowl Monday will be to find a U.S. television feed with all of the new commercials, getting our hands on some Coors Lite and keeping the koalas off the antenna (can you believe most folks here don’t have cable??).

Oh, and we must work to stay cool on Super Monday, too. We had a week of temps in the 105-115F range just a couple of weeks ago. Sorry to rub that in given the winter ya’ll are having.

I’m an international Broncos fan. I live in Marseille (south of France). I must say I’m quite a recent football fan. I started to really get interested in this game when Peyton had his neck surgeries and when eventually he signed to Denver.

Of course I love Peyton and how he is smart, but more than that I really like how the entire organization seem to work well together from players to coaches, John Fox to John Elway. Players genuinely seem to appreciate themselves and seek the same goal: winning.

Sébastien, a Broncos fan from Marsille, France, shows off his Peyton Manning jersey, along with a sign for his hometown soccer team. Photo special to The Denver Post.

It’s great to see all these WR with around the same number of TDs, this is really a team play. I also like how Peyton and Adam Gase seem to emulate themselves create great game plays.

Moreover I must say nowadays with internet it’s quite easy to follow a foreign sport/team. I have a subscription to the NFL Network, so I can watch every games and for news about the team I read the online version of your newspaper. I even watch the Pressbox show whenever I find the time. Of course, my dream would be to come in Denver and see a game.

So that’s make two things I absolutely love about Colorado: the Broncos and South Park 🙂

I can very much relate with Max. My name is Mark, and I am a native of Colorado Springs. I am a teacher in a boarding school at Ivy Collegiate Academy in Taichung, Taiwan. Another Broncos fan (from Ft. Collins) and I regularly wake up at 3,4, or 5 to watch every Broncos game this year live; I then have to teach throughout the day. The team has made it worth my time to watch this year! We are working to brainwash a whole school of Broncos fans! The Super Bowl falls during Chinese New Year, so I don’t have to teach after this most stressful game. Bonus: My mom is coming from Colorado Springs to visit me, so we will watch the game together. Go Broncos!

Nicki Jhabvala is a Broncos beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor. She also spent two years as a home page editor at the New York Times.